Monday, April 14, 2025 - A young man in his early 30s, identified as Utibe Eteffia has taken his life through lethal poison after falling victim to cyber criminals popular known as Yahoo Boys, who cleared out his account to the tune of N2.5 million.
Leadership reports that the deceased who ran a POS business
had been sharing hints of attempting suicide. He was said to have posted an
obituary on social media with the picture of a lit candle and asked “Do you
believe in reincarnation?”
He also asked his followers to be their brothers’ keeper by
showing love and helping those in need.
According to neighbours, the deceased had become reclusive a
few days to his death and had begun a countdown on social media.
“Sometimes,
he would remain in his house crying. Some nights he would make calls to people
till even 4:00 am. About one week to committing the suicide, he came to my
house, asking me if I have rat poison. When I probed further, he explained that
he wanted to use it to clear some rodents in his house.
I was also
told he went to a chemist shop in the neighbourhood to check the poisonous
substance and succeeded in buying one before travelling to his village to take
his life,”he neighbors said
The deceased, from Ini local government area, having lost
both parents at a very young age, was raised by his aunt, who saw him through
secondary school. He later got financial assistance from family and friends to
run the PoS business.
Struggling to find his right footing in these hard times, he
was said to have deployed his iphone into running a cyber deal with criminals
on social media, who introduced him into the cult cartel running Yahoo- Plus
business and ended up being duped after being initiated.
It was gathered that his indoctrination into the cult
disorganised his psyche and thought pattern, causing him to begin looking
beyond the present world to the imaginary abode.
According to a family source, when he got home after
travelling a distance of about 45 minutes from Uyo to Ini LGA, he asked his
late father’s brother and others whether they would not go to Church, to which
they replied that not much was happening in Church that day, that they would
rather pray in the house.
At that point, he was said to have asked the uncle to lend him money, but
the uncle he could only spare N10,000, to which he murmured in passing, “how
much can N10,000 do?”
In the evening, he was said to have gone to Church and returned in the
late evening hours and waited for everyone to retire before hitting his system
with the lethal substance.
His remains were discovered lifeless on the veranda to the utter shock and
surprise of the family, who sent a delegation to search his house for any
evidence connected to his de@th, to no avail.
“We will not bury him now until
we know why he took the difficult decision to end his life,” a family source
disclosed.
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